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Yamaha Professional Room Acoustic Optimizer

 
 

With all the recent advancements in technology, home theatre receivers have made leaps and bounds in intelligence and user-friendliness. YPAO is one of the most exciting advancements in receiver design - a complete room-accoustic optimizer. Activating the function causes test tones to be emitted, which are then captured by the YPAO microphone (included with YPAO compliant receivers). Under the hood, the system checks and makes the necessary adjustments for: 

 
 

 

Missing speaker/subwoofer connection and phase
Speaker/subwoofer distance measurements (corrects for differences down to 5 cm)
Speaker size (large or small)
Speaker level – measures and aligns the sound pressure (volume) levels of all speakers

Frequency response – measures and optimizes each speaker’s frequency response using the parametric equalizer (HTR5790, RXV1400 or higher)

Subwoofer crossover frequency (RXZ9 only)

With YPAO, setting up the ideal sound environment is finally a breeze!



To help you truly appreciate this unique technology, a concise depiction of Yamaha's professional room acoustic optimization is summarized in the film below:

 

 
 
*Parametric Equalizer not available on all YPAO models

 

 
 
The following Yamaha receivers support YPAO:

 
 
   


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